How many moves does it take to swap over some red and blue frogs? Do you have a method?
As teachers, we appreciate the need to have clear objectives at the start of lessons but have been aware of the limitations this sometimes seems to place on our ability to get the most out of using rich tasks. In this article we talk about how we managed this tension.
Some treasure has been hidden in a three-dimensional grid! Can you work out a strategy to find it as efficiently as possible?
The computer has made a rectangle and will tell you the number of spots it uses in total. Can you find out where the rectangle is?
What is the greatest number of counters you can place on the grid below without four of them lying at the corners of a square?
How can we help students make sense of addition and subtraction of negative numbers?
In this article, Janine Davenall reflects on children's personalised mathematical recordings as part of a small research project based in her Reception class.
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to race against Usain Bolt?
Explore some of the different types of network, and prove a result about network trees.
Can you find a way to identify times tables after they have been shifted up or down?
